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THIS is the shocking moment suspected migrants stagger out from the back of a lorry, struggling to breathe.

The men can be seen falling to their knees as they are rescued on the side of the M25 in Essex.

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The disturbing footage is just the latest to lay bare the migrant crisis that sees desperate men and women risk their lives to reach the UK.

Heartless human traffickers are also cashing in on migrants' dreams of a new life in Britain - charging tens of thousands of pounds to smuggle them over the border.

Just last month, 39 Vietnamese nationals were tragically found dead inside a refrigerated container, sparking one of Britain's biggest murder investigations ever.

While police have been left scrambling to lay charges against those involved, the families of the victims have been left reeling from their devastating loss.

And just three days ago, Essex police were again put on high alert as they were called to reports of a lorry near Waltham Abbey, filled with ten migrants.

It looked like they were struggling to breathe

Witness Bill told The Sun Online: "I had pulled into look at my car and I saw some commotion.

"I looked up and there were people standing behind the lorry and the police came flying up."

The 29-year-old said he couldn't believe his eyes as police began to help the men out of the back of the lorry, believed to be Polish, on the side of the M25.

He said: "It looked like they were struggling to breathe, there's no ventilation in the trucks.

"They were just down on the floor, it was mental."

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The footage shows at least two men fall to their knees as they gasp for breath.

At least one person was taken to hospital for medical treatment.

Ten men were ultimately arrested on suspicion of immigration offences, while the lorry driver was also detained by cops. It is unclear where the men came from.

Even today, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution rescued a group of around 10 suspected migrants - including children - from a boat.

The vessel was found in the English Channel, with authorities bringing them ashore at Dover.

They will now be processed by Border Force officials.

As of June this year, people traffickers have already sneaked 540 migrants across the Channel.

The disturbing figure was on track to double last year's tally of 539 people arriving in the UK.

Since the Vietnamese migrants were found in October, Essex Police have launched a massive investigation which has seen a number of people charged.

The lorry driver Mo Robinson, 25, from Northern Ireland, has been charged with a string of offences, including 39 counts of manslaughter.

Today, 23-year-old Christopher Kennedy was also charged with human trafficking over the tragedy.

But the migrant crisis has continued unabated with fears around 1,200 would-be migrants are still living in makeshift tent villages in woodland on the outskirts of the Calais port.

The Sun located another migrant camp in France, where Vietnamese migrants had forked out 25,000 to get from China into Germany.

They were finally driven to France, left in the muddy camp to wait for a chance to get into the UK.

And Calais is not the only port struggling with an influx of migrants ready to risk their lives to get to the UK.

LORRY DEATHS: How 39 people's desperate journey to the UK ended in tragedy

THE bodies of 39 Vietnamese nationals were found in the back of a refrigerated lorry in Essex in October.

The container travelled through the Belgian port of Zeebrugge to Purfleet in Essex on October 23.

But just 35 minutes after being picked up, ambulance and police were called to make the grim discovery.

The lorry's driver, Maurice Robinson, has since been charged with 39 counts if manslaughter.

The stories of those who died trapped in the lorry have since emerged - with their grieving families telling how they had paid thousands to people smugglers.

One 26-year-old, Pham Thi Tra My, messaged her family telling them: "I can't breathe. Mum, I'm very sorry."

The tiny port town of Ouistreham regularly sees migrants running after trucks in a desperate attempt to reach Britain.

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Harrowing footage captured by the Sun Online showed how one was even dragged after a truck as he tried to get inside.

Meanwhile, Zeebrugge, the Belgian port where the ill-fated container holding the 39 Vietnamese victims travelled through, regularly sees migrants throwing themselves over barbed-wire fences to sneak into containers.

If you saw anything in relation to the Waltham Abbey truck call cops on 101 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111.

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The divide between the foreign policy elite in Washington, D.C. and the American public is wide and getting wider. The American people are increasingly more restrained than the establishment that is responsible for crafting U.S. national security policy in their name.

Those are the two main conclusions one draws after readingthe latest reportfrom the Eurasia Group Foundations Mark Hannah and Caroline Gray, who commissioned a national survey to investigate the foreign policy preferences of American voters across the country.

Americans are crying out for a far different, judicious and more thoughtful U.S. foreign policy. One that prioritizes military restraint and common-sense diplomatic engagement as much as administrations over the last quarter-century have prioritized ill-advised and counterproductive overreach.

Take NATO as a prime example. Hardly a day goes by without some influential opinion or policymaker applauding NATO for being the oldest and most successful military alliance on the planet. American voters, however, have a much more skeptical view of the 70-year old organization.

The EGF survey shows a public not at all unified on the prospect of supporting military retaliation against Moscow if Russia invades a Baltic member of the alliance.

This specific finding will hit boosters of the transatlantic community as a terrifying instance of a U.S. wobbling on its alliance obligations, but the number actually points to a popular gripe: that NATO is static, unaccountable and in desperate need of internal reform.

Lawmakers in Washington cant blame their constituents for questioning the wisdom of sending U.S. troops into a hypothetical war with a nuclear-armed Russia. Especially when it's on behalf of a NATO ally and the vast majority of wealthy European member states pinch pennies on their own defense, but are happy to offload the bulk of the responsibility on Uncle Sams shoulders.

If Europeans arent willing to invest in their own resilience as called for under Article 3 of NATO, how can we expect Americans to continue supporting Article 5 without reservation?

Skepticism of U.S. military action extends to humanitarian intervention as well. A strong 47 percent plurality of Americans advocate for restraint in cases where a foreign population is being brutalized or victimized by their own governments.

This shouldnt come as a surprise; after the invasion of Iraq and the U.S.-led operation against Libyas Muammar al-Qaddafi, American voters are far more likely to think twice before committing the United States to internal conflicts in foreign countries where the dynamics are complicated, and little understood in Washington.

This conclusion has less to do with a lack of generosity in the American people and far more to do with past experience, where civilian protection missions often have the unintended effect of making the plight of civilians even harder.

The U.S. bombing campaign against Qaddafis regime ended a 40-year dictatorship, but Qaddafis departure opened the doors to a fierce and bloody competition between Libyas multiple armed factions.

The Libya of 2019 is a hot, disgusting soup of conflicting self-interest and a playground for regional powers (the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Russia, Turkey, and Qatar). The anarchic security environment in the North African country is far from the burgeoning and stable democracy proponents of the intervention set out to accomplish and this isn't even mentioning the Europeans who are today dealing with a migrant crisis exacerbated by a destabilized Libya.

Is it any wonder Americans are less than enthused, if not opposed, to deploying the U.S. military in other nations internal conflicts particularly when direct U.S. national security interests are not at risk?

Understandably, U.S. policy in Afghanistan also comes under harsh scrutiny in the survey Over 18 years since the first U.S. air strikes against al Qaeda and Taliban targets, 12,000 American troops remain on Afghan soil defending an Afghan government in Kabul defined by corruption.

Washington is dropping anordnanceon enemy targets at a record pace this year. The mission of obliterating al Qaedas terrorist infrastructure in the country and punishing the Taliban was achieved in late 2001. This was when Taliban fighters were pleading for mercy and Osama Bin Laden was hiding in a cave to shield himself from U.S. bombing.

Despite President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump at rally vows to supporters no name change for 'Thanksgiving' Trump says he will designate Mexican drug cartels as terror organizations State Dept. official describes frantic effort to save recalled Ukraineambassador MOREs repeated declarations about withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan, this administration continues to maintain an indefinite force presence at a cost of $45 billion a year.

In a Pew Research Center pollpublishedin July, 58 percent of U.S. veterans and 59 percent of adults said the benefits of the war in Afghanistan have not been worth the costs of fighting it.

The Eurasia Group Foundations study proves these numbers are the rule, not the exception: A 40 percent plurality of American voters want the U.S. to end the war in Afghanistan immediately, even if a peace deal is out of reach. Those numbers will likely increase every additional day thousands of American soldiers remain in the war zone.

A foreign policy of restraint is an objective Americans from all walks of life are demanding from the national security apparatus in Washington. To avoid preventable blunders in the future and to make the U.S. stronger, Washington elites would be wise to take into account the sober judgment of the people they are supposed to represent.

DanielR.DePetrisis a fellow at Defense Priorities and a columnist at the Washington Examiner.

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Every person sleeping rough in Bristol this winter could soon have their own life-saving thermal sleep pod - thanks to an incredible project co-ordinated by the citys music scene.

Top names from bands like Portishead and Idles are among those who have pitched in to fund and develop a new invention called a Sleep Pod, which should stop anyone on the streets freezing as the winter chill descends.

Some 400 of the new inventions - which were developed as a result of a team of volunteers efforts to help refugees and migrants in the Calais Jungle a few years ago - have been brought to Bristol.

And now they will be gradually distributed to the homeless in the city, and Bath and Weston-super-Mare, from this week and into the coming weeks and months.

The project was the brainchild of a group of people who put their normal lives on hold when the European Migrant Crisis hit in 2015 and 2016 and headed to northern France to feed, clothe and look after the welfare of thousands of people who were trying to reach Britain.

Many were from Bristols vibrant music and nightlife scene, with people in bands and those who run venues and pubs joining forces.

That relief effort spawned the Bristol-based charity Aid Box Community, and now one of the lasting legacies from that relief effort is going to be seen on the streets of Bristol.

Some of the team worked on a cheap and easy way to keep people sleeping out in the open warm in cold nights - and developed the sleep pod to take over to the Jungle in Calais.

Now, a fundraising drive to get together 10,000 to buy 400 Sleep Pods has been successful.

Much of the cash comes from a charity fundraiser music event being staged on December 12 called Give a Sh** Xmas, which has already sold out. It features Idles and Beak, the band of Portisheads Geoff Barrow, and is being put together by the leading figures of Bristols music and festival scene, the people behind Love Saves the Day, Boomtown, Shambala and other venue owners.

Joby Andrews, a director of pub and venue chain Refresh the West, said: This is a truly Bristol collaboration of people who recognise there is a homeless crisis in our city and have come together with an emergency measure to stop people dying on the streets this Christmas.

We recognised there is a homeless emergency in Bristol. The amount of rough sleepers you see on the streets these days has just exploded in the last few years, due to cuts in services.

Some friends of ours who we met when we were volunteering in refugee camps invented the Sleep Pod, which is an emergency measure to stop people dying on the streets, he added.

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Faced with a 10,000 bill for making the idea of 400 Sleep Pods a reality for those on the streets, Bristols leading lights of the music scene stepped up.

Tom Friend, who runs Friendly Records in Bedminsters North Street, was one who set up a fundraising drive called Give a Sh** Xmas to raise money each Christmas, and pulled together Bristols bands to get involved this year.

If Tom Friend was the Bob Geldof for Bristols homeless, then the likes of Idles, Beak and Babyhead were the U2, Phil Collins and Wham!

All the bands stepped up to play the fundraising gig, and Beaks Geoff Barrow, Idles Jon Beavis and Tom Mauger from Babyhead were there to see the fruits of their efforts arrive in Bristol on Tuesday.

Weve been overwhelmed by the response to this years gig there is so much support from the local community in supporting people who have nowhere to live and we all have a role to play, said Tom Friend.

In particular, where people cannot access a safe nights respite this is particularly desperate. When we heard about the drive to bring 400 Sleep Pods to Bristol, we knew we had to support it alongside our other amazing charities and hope as many people can get involved in the build as possible, he added.

Joby Andrews said some of the organisers of Bristols huge festivals also got involved.

We pulled together all our resources from festivals and businesses, and pubs and the music industry in Bristol, raised enough money to make 400 of them, so were going to try and get one to every rough sleeper in Bristol, Bath and Weston this winter, to stop anybody dying of exposure on the streets, said Joby Andrews.

Give a S*** Xmas has stepped in at the last minute to help us raise the extra funds we needed to get the 400 sleep pods down here from where they are made in Birmingham, so we are particularly grateful to them.

We really need people now to come and help us build the pods and get them out to people who have nowhere else to go over the festive period, he added.

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Homeless charities in Bristol are now going to co-ordinate the distribution of the pods.

Shada Nasrullah from Feed the Homeless Bristol, said the sleep pods would save lives.

I think they are going to be really vital for the rough sleeping homeless community in Bristol over the winter, she said.

Feed The Homeless Bristol are one of a number of charities that go out to feed and help the rough sleepers in Bristol. Its teams go out twice a week, and the numbers they help are growing - up to 120 each night, with another dozen or so in Weston.

A large proportion of those are rough sleeping, so they are out on the streets in all elements, just protected with a sleeping bag if they are lucky.

They are very vulnerable and are exposed to the health risks in those sorts of conditions.

The Sleep Pod is going to give them some sort of protection from those elements.

"The levels of rough sleepers are increasing and those who are on the streets will die younger because of the impact this has on their health, she added.

Not only are rough sleepers more susceptible to illness and infections, they're also having to deal with our harsh winters. Having somewhere warm and dry to sleep will save lives and improve the quality of life for some of the most vulnerable people in our community, she said.

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The protesters gathered 2,000 strong, demanding the crowd shut down a talk about immigration by right-wing commentator Ann Coulter at UC Berkeley this week.

Some wore black. Some marched in a circle, yelling anti-Coulter chants. Some waved signs calling Coulter a racist who supports fascism, ethnic cleansing and white supremacy. In diverse and liberal Berkeley, the student and community protesters were particularly riled up by Coulters anti-immigrant slams in her 2015 book, Adios America! The Lefts Plan to Turn our Country into a Third World Hellhole.

But Coulter came. She spoke. She left.

And it all occurred without major problems the kinds of violent protests that shut down a 2017 Berkeley appearance by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, drew national headlines and prompted President Trump to threaten to cut off the universitys federal funding.

What was significant ... was what didnt happen, UC Berkeley spokesman Dan Mogulof said Thursday. We did not see the sort of violence, mayhem and property destruction that attended to the event with Milo Yiannopoulos.

Police arrested five people, including three students for resisting law enforcement. One person was injured during a scuffle with a protester. There was no property damage during the talk, attended by about 400 people.

Matt Ronnau, president of the UC Berkeley College Republicans, which invited Coulter, said as many as 100 students may have been blocked from attending by protesters who linked arms as a human barricade near the entrances. He also said a few students reported that knives were pulled, but Mogulof said police have received no such reports.

Ronnau, however, said the event went well overall and praised UC police officers for their work.

The rank-and-file ... always does a fantastic job, he said. If not for them, we could have had a very bad situation similar to Milo in 2017.

Mogulof said protesters were passionate and agitated and that many came determined to end the talk. But this year the campus was ready after Chancellor Carol T. Christ, who took the helm in 2017, began working with UC police to improve crowd control methods and launched Free Speech Year with panels to demonstrate how to exchange opposing views in a respectful manner and learn about the 1st Amendment.

At the Coulter event, Berkeley kept control thanks to the extraordinary professionalism of police, crowd control lessons learned from the 2017 protest and students who followed rules for campus events, which were modified last year, Mogulof said.

Police forces from nine UC campuses, along with backup from the California Highway Patrol, stood at the ready.

Mogulof declined to provide details about how many police were deployed but said all undergraduate campuses except UC Santa Cruz sent officers. UC campuses almost always prefer to use their own police, Mogulof said, because they are specially trained in protest management and best understand the university systems priority on public safety and free speech rights.

Since the Yiannopoulos protest, he said, Berkeley has spent more than $4 million on security measures and made changes in how law enforcement gathers information, deals with outsiders coming to campus, deters plans to stir up violence and secures the speaking venue.

Berkeley has cracked down on the wearing of masks, for instance, in line with a longstanding state law barring them to avoid detection by police. The university toughened its policy after many Antifa members and other protesters wore masks while storming the campus during the Yiannopoulos event. On Wednesday, those wearing masks were asked to remove them, Mogulof said.

Another change that has helped keep the peace, Mogulof said, is that student organizations are now closely adhering to a policy that spells out the process for holding major campus events, including requirements for advance notifications, deadlines and planning meetings. The policy was modified last year to clarify the responsibilities of both the campus and student organizations as part of a legal settlement with conservative students who complained the campus arbitrarily threw up barriers to their proposed events, impeding them from hosting speakers.

Since the Yiannopoulos event, the College Republicans have held campus forums with a host of conservatives, including Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Rick Santorum, Charlie Kirk and Sean Spicer.

Every single one of them went off without incident, without trouble of any sort whatsoever, Mogulof said.

The Coulter talk drew the most protests since 2017, however. The event was chronicled in detail on Twitter by The Daily Californian news reporters as well as members of the Berkeley College Republicans.

After her talk, Ronnau described Coulter as one of the nicest people Ive met who is the farthest thing from a white nationalist and Nazi.

She told students she supported a wall on the southern border to stop illegal immigration and a moratorium on legal immigration so the nation could first take care of its own people who are facing homelessness and crime-ridden neighborhoods, Ronnau said.

Ronnau, a senior majoring in statistics, agreed that Berkeley has significantly improved its climate for free speech.

Its definitely improved and were very grateful for that, he said.

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The Drudge Report is still the king of conservative aggregator websites, but its rivals are gaining ground.

Five right-tilting upstarts Whatfinger News, Liberty Daily, Rantingly, NewsAmmo and Gab Trends increased their average monthly traffic and engagement, as measured by average visit duration and average pages per visit, from September-October 2018 to 2019, according to SimilarWeb, which shared its data with The Washington Times.

At the same time, the marketing-intelligence company found traffic to the Drudge Report during that period declined by 15%. From July to October, Drudge dropped from 96 million total visits to 77 million, prompting recent headlines such as True Pundits Drudge Bleeds Out as Conservatives Flee.

The Drudge Report has stoked alarm on the right for appearing to pivot on its support for President Trump, increasingly linking to stories that are critical of the administration and to media websites that are accused of having an anti-Trump bias such as CNN, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The same cannot be said of Whatfinger, the largest of the Drudge rivals, which favors links to conservative news and opinion websites such as Fox News, Breitbart, Daily Signal, Daily Wire, Western Journal and WorldNet Daily.

Whatfinger grew by 40.8% year-over-year, increasing its traffic from 2.23 million to 3.2 million. The next largest site, the Liberty Daily, grew by 72% as its average monthly visits grew to 1.72 million, according to SimilarWeb.

The Liberty Daily makes no bones about its rivalry, cheekily billing itself as The Conservative Alternative to the Drudge Report.

B.J. Rudell, associate director of the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service at Duke University, said the growth of Drudge rivals reflects a polarized climate in which news-seekers want to read what they already believe.

Trumps approval numbers havent changed much in the past year, Mr. Rudell said. But Drudges editorializing of Trump has. So its reasonable to expect that some conservative Drudge readers those who have stuck by Trump would look elsewhere.

At Rantingly, the banner headline Tuesday was Bloomberg Hopelessly Compromises His Media Company and linked to a New York Post article. The website grew year-over-year by 316%, increasing from 61,000 monthly visits to 255,000.

NewsAmmo, founded last year by a few friends who live in Texas and Nebraska, had the lowest traffic numbers but the highest growth, logging 12,700 monthly visits in September-October.

The youngest site, Gab Trends, part of the right-wing social-media network Gab, launched last month and has already built its average monthly traffic 67,400, said SimilarWeb.

Drudge Report founder Matt Drudge did not respond to a request for comment.

He has yet to comment publicly on reports of his shift, but theories for the pivot include, his friendship with anti-Trump conservative Ann Coulter or a possible loss of confidence in Mr. Trumps ability to execute a conservative agenda.

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